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07/16/2010 The Funders Together Forum: Philanthropy and the National Plan to End Homelessness "We know what works and we have to do it!" Publisher: Funders Together Author: Funders Together

Funders from a dozen states gathered for a Funders Forum in Washington DC on July 12 prior to the annual conference of the National Alliance to End Homelessness to discuss philanthropy’s role in implementing Opening Doors: the (first- ever) Federal Strategic Plan to End Homelessness.

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07/15/2010 Federal Plan Marks a New Day in the Fight Against Homelessness Publisher: Funders Together Author: Deborah De Santis

Soon after entering the Oval Office, President Barack Obama said no one should go without housing because we fail to be bold and act. The federal government has followed up on those words with deeds and made the most far-reaching commitment in our history to helping the homeless.

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06/22/2010 A Message on the Release of 'Opening Doors' Publisher: Funders Together Author: Bob Hohler

Opening Doors is a landmark in the history of fighting homelessness. For the first time the federal government has gone on the record with a long term commitment to ending homelessness. The plan reinforces this commitment by including time lines and specific ways to measure its progress on an annual basis.

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06/15/2010 The Supportive Housing Industry Forges Ahead Publisher: Corporation for Supportive Housing Author: Jacquelyn Anderson

In 2010, the supportive housing industry is facing a moment of both great promise and great challenges. The economic downturn and its subsequent impact on state and local budgets happened just as supportive housing was being embraced and adopted by communities across the country as the central solution to chronic homelessness – and as the supportive housing industry was entering into maturity. To learn more about supportive housing in the current climate, in late January 2010 we solicited responses to an on-line survey about the state of the supportive housing industry. The survey was designed to gather information to help us to better understand the challenges, opportunities, trends, and issues that industry members are facing.

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05/04/2010 Grant-making in the Homelessness Area: One Foundation’s Strategic Initiative to Help End Homelessness in Washington, D.C. Publisher: William S. Abell Foundation Author: Tom Nurmi

The William S. Abell Foundation is a small ($70M in assets) private family foundation which has funded nonprofits engaged in helping the homeless in the District of Columbia during the 25 years of its existence. The Foundation decided five years ago that it needed to take a fresh look at its grant-making in the homelessness area. The Foundation’s Board established a Homelessness Committee which undertook an intensive self-education process to determine what was working and what was not in the District and elsewhere. Based on this groundwork, the Board undertook a five year Strategic Initiative during which it has spent $8.3 M in trying to work with others who have been trying to change D.C. from a shelter based model to a model which seeks to end homelessness.

06/25/2010 The Week in Tweets - June 19 thru June 25 Publisher: Funders Together Author: Funders Together

A summary of tweets from the Funders Together twitter feed. Follow us at @FundersTogether for real-time updates!

Tweets of Note:

  • A Message from Funders Together Chair Bob Hohler on the release of USICH #federalplan http://bit.ly/dplrHJ Tuesday, June 22, 2010 9:10:06 AM via TweetDeck
  • Nan Roman: Turning the plan into action RT @naehomelessness: we're excited (!) about the federal plan - but we need... http://huff.to/anb93f Tuesday, June 22, 2010 5:12:23 PM via TweetDeck
  • Finally, a federal plan to end homeless. CSH's Deb De Santis writes on Huff Post: http://huff.to/ciR4Q0 Wednesday, June 23, 2010 2:00:49 PM via TweetDeck
  • RT @naehomelessness: a GREAT article from @CenteronBudget about the TANF ECF - and what's at stake http://huff.to/ctRwzT Thursday, June 24, 2010 2:22:55 PM via web
  • NY: US Appeals court lifts stay on relocating mentally ill to supportive housing http://nyti.ms/dvGMy0 Friday, June 25, 2010 3:55:53 PM via TweetDeck

06/23/2010 Finally, A Federal Plan to End Homelessness Publisher: The Huffington Post Author: Deborah De Santis

On Tuesday, I attended the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH) release of the Obama Administration's much anticipated comprehensive plan to prevent and end homelessness, titled, Opening Doors: The Federal Strategic Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness. The Corporation for Supportive Housing (CSH) applauds the USICH's work to create a dialogue among federal agencies with the clear goal of ending homelessness in America.

06/18/2010 The Week in Tweets - June 12 thru June 18 Publisher: Funders Together Author: Funders Together

A summary of tweets from the Funders Together twitter feed. Follow us at @FundersTogether for real-time updates!

Tweets of Note:

  • Great read: Joe Nocera 'Wake-up Time for a Dream', on housing policy, homeownership and the mortgage business http://nyti.ms/b5A551 1:43 PM Jun 14th via TweetDeck
  • The State of the Nation's Housing 2010, report from Harvards Joint Center for Housing Studies http://bit.ly/dcGRn7 via @naehomelessness June 15, 2010 11:51:50 AM EDT via TweetDeck
  • 'Tools for Identifying High-cost, High-need Homeless Persons', report from Economic Roundtable http://bit.ly/b64oUv June 16, 2010 11:09:23 AM EDT via TweetDeck
  • RT @HUDNews: HUD Issues 2009 Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress http://bit.ly/9M9PH5 June 16, 2010 3:15:19 PM EDT via TweetDeck
  • RT @NLIHC: article from CAP highlights problems with current state of low-income housing and how NHTF will help http://bit.ly/9DHhMf June 16, 2010 1:35:11 PM EDT via TweetDeck
  • Homeless Numbers Dip, But More Families Suffer (NPR story on the AHAR). concern over increases in family homelessness http://n.pr/bme1Vx June 18, 2010 2:03:41 PM EDT via TweetDeck

05/13/2010 HPRP: It Has 'Transformative Potential'...but is it Tweet-worthy? Publisher: Funders Together Author: Georgie Schaefer

Managing a twitter feed requires two basics: content worth tweeting and the judgment regarding what constitutes worthy content. Content really is a matter of source. In twitterland, sources are traditional news articles, reports, research, and, of course, your followers and fellow Tweeters. This is essentially online press vetted by an online community. Necessarily a great deal of content goes under the twitter radar. This is the press ‘not worth tweeting.’

04/16/2010 Is There Ever a Good Day to be Homeless? Publisher: Grand Rapids Community Foundation Author: Diana Sieger

I’m sure it was the warm sunny weather or a pre-April Fool’s Day idea of a joke but a tweet on Twitter caught my attention yesterday. Actually it wasn’t from someone I know or follow - it was in the parlance of Twitter a “retweet” or a post that someone reposts. Nonetheless it read: “Today would be a great day to be homeless.” There is never a great day to be homeless.

 

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